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"Chicagoans know all too well how the Bears turn to intimidation to get their way with pliant politicians. During Mayor Richard M. Daley’s reign, the team torqued the screws hard on City Hall to renovate Soldier Field. The result was a saucer-shaped monstrosity that permanently marred a memorial to World War I U.S. soldiers, and heaped $432 million in public debt on the backs of taxpayers. When the deal was first inked, Daley pledged that taxpayers wouldn’t have to pay a dime. To this day, taxpayers are paying off Soldier Field renovation debt."
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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The whole NFL uses intimidation – look what the Rams did to St Louis.
Let Arlington Heights or Naperville have them. But same response: don’t burden the taxpayers. An inferior product shouldn’t be rewarded. If they were more successful, they could self fund, but they’re not.
Agree, taxpayers should not have to support habitual LOSERS!!
Winners or losers … taxpayers shouldn’t have to support ANY for profit professional sports team!